US4974729A - Reminder system for taking medication - Google Patents

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US4974729A
US4974729A US07/342,765 US34276589A US4974729A US 4974729 A US4974729 A US 4974729A US 34276589 A US34276589 A US 34276589A US 4974729 A US4974729 A US 4974729A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J7/00—Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
    • A61J7/04—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J1/00—Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes
    • A61J1/03—Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes for pills or tablets
    • A61J1/035—Blister-type containers
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the invention relates to time reminder or indicator devices associated with medicament containers for indicating when a dose of medicine should be taken.
  • the invention relates to a time reminder system for use with blister-pack containers of discrete quantities of medicine.
  • the containers have, affixed to them, reminder devices which bear a plurality of indicia corresponding to desired time periods: for example, the indicia may correspond to hours, days of the week, etc.
  • the time indicia are generally affixed to a member which is slidably or rotatably movable relative to a fixed index mark on the container, or vice-versa.
  • the medicament container may take the form of a blister-pack pill dispenser having individually openable pill pockets and the indicia in such cases may be nothing more than printed information adjacent each blister associating each discrete dose (i.e.
  • blister contents with a day of the week, for example, indicating that the medication dosage in that blister is required to be taken at the indicated time.
  • This type of time reminder device is commonly used in containers of birth control pills and one such device is known for dispensing aspirin tablets, each blister being marked with a day of the week.
  • the indicia used on such dispensers are an integral part of the dispensers and, if for some reason a different time schedule is desired, the dispenser is unusable for such different schedule and a whole new dispenser/indicia package must be prepared for each new schedule.
  • a calendar type blister-pack container could be initially dispensed by the physician together with a separable time reminder device indicating a predetermined dosage schedule.
  • the consumer could transfer the separable time reminder device to another medicament container which could be purchased OTC.
  • medication is prescribed on a varying schedule in order for the patient to be slowly introduced to or withdrawn from an efficacious medicament level.
  • beta blockers, anticonvulsants and antidepressants must generally be prescribed in stages.
  • An additional object of this invention is to provide a reminder system for a blister-pack medicament dispenser wherein the time schedule of the system is easily variable.
  • a reminder system for providing an indication of when a dose of medication should be taken, comprising: a planar medication holder for holding a plurality of unit doses of medication, said holder having a front surface and a rear surface; frangible means retaining said unit doses of medication to said holder; a planar indicia means adapted to be retained adjacent said front surface of said holder, said indicia means provided with a plurality of visible indicia each of which is associated with one of said unit doses when said indicia means is attached to said holder; means for separably retaining said indicia means to said holder.
  • FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a foldable, medicament containing blister package embodying the principles of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of paperboard blank used in the manufacture of the foldable blister package of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view of an alternate embodiment of a paperboard blank usable to produce a larger foldable blister package of the type shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a front perspective view of a preferred embodiment of a reminder system 8 constructed in accordance with the principles of this invention and comprising foldable blister pack dispenser 10 and separable indicia means 11.
  • Dispenser 10 is constructed in a conventional manner from a paperboard blank 12 (best seen in FIG. 2).
  • Blank 12 comprises a top panel 14 foldable along fold line 16 in order to be placed in abutting relationship over bottom panel 18.
  • Panel 14 is provided with a plurality of linearly arranged apertures 19 and panel 18 is provided with a corresponding plurality of filled areas 20 each circumscribed by a score line 21 (to facilitate opening the blister, as will be understood below).
  • Each panel is also provided with a plurality of fold lines separating the panels into various portions described below.
  • a suitable thermo-formed blister containing material (not shown) will be sandwiched between the folded panels 14 and 18 such that the blisters 50 (best seen in FIG. 1) will protrude through apertures 19.
  • a suitable frangible foil backing (not shown) is sealingly secured to the rear surface of the blister material adjacent bottom panel 18 in order to retain a desired medicament in tablet or other form placed within each of the blisters.
  • dispenser 10 comprises a medicament or tablet containing portion 30 joined along a fold line 32 to a broad hinge portion 34 which is in turn joined along fold line 36 to cover portion 38. The latter is joined along fold line 40 to a broad hinge portion 42 which is in turn joined along fold line 44 to a locking flap portion 46.
  • Some various other parts of dispenser 10 are numbered with an "a” and “b” suffix to the numbers used in FIGS. 1 and 2 indicating that some features of the final, folded dispenser are formed of two cooperating (“a” and "b") parts of both panels.
  • Aperture 22 is provided to view a date code on the foil backing (not shown).
  • Tablet containing portion 30 comprises a plurality of blisters 50, each extending above the top surface 52 of portion 30 and each containing a medicament dosage 54 in tablet or other form.
  • the purpose of the broad hinge portions 34 and 42 is to assure that, when cover portion 38 is folded adjacent and parallel to portion 30, it remains spaced sufficiently therefrom to avoid crushing the blisters. It should be apparent to those skilled in the art that the various portions 30, 38 and 46 are foldable into a compact package with locking flap 46 ultimately lying parallel to the back surface 60 of portion 30 such that locking tab 62 may be inserted into cooperating locking slit aperture 64 in order to keep dispenser 10 in a closed position.
  • Indicia means 11 comprises a separable sheet member 70 which in the preferred embodiment is formed from a relatively firm, durable and reusable material (such as any suitable plastic or thick gauge paperboard) and is provided with locking tabs 72 and 74 and a plurality of apertures 76.
  • Locking tabs 72 and 74 are intended to cooperate with locking slits 78 and 80, respectively, in order to retain sheet member 70 adjacent the top surface 52 of portion 30 in a manner such that blisters 50 extend through apertures 76.
  • Sheet member 70 must be bent slightly in order to engage tabs 72 and 74 with their respective slits.
  • Any suitable indicia 82 may be printed on the top, visible surface of sheet member 70, thus identifying which tablet should be taken at which time in accordance with a regimen prescribed by a physician.
  • a differing schedule could be printed on the reverse side of sheet member 70 (not shown) in order to give the physician some flexibility to easily alter the regimen for a particular patient.
  • other sheet members could be prepared to define any other desired schedules.
  • Sheet member 70 may be initially formed with an attached flap 84 joined to the sheet member along a perforated line 86 so that it may be detached when desired.
  • Flap 84 may include any desirable identifying instructional or advertising printed information 88. Similar information may obviously be included on the various portions 30, 38 and 46.
  • blister pack 10 may be formed in any desired size with any number of blisters.
  • the preferred embodiment shown in FIG. 2 is, along with the sheet member shown, convenient for a weekly supply of medicament dosages to be taken on alternate days.
  • FIG. 3 shows a plan view of a paperboard blank 100 which could be used in a conventional manner to produce a 28 tablet dispenser. It will be understood that the panels 102 and 104 are folded and cooperate in a manner identical to the cooperation between panels 14 and 18 of FIG. 2.
  • the groups 106, 107, 108 and 109 of linearly arranged apertures and their counterpart filled/scored areas 106a, 107a, 108a and 109a are staggered so that when the panel 110 carrying apertures 106 and 107 is folded over adjacent to panel 112 carrying apertures 108 and 109, the groups 106 and 107 are arranged in interdigitated fashion adjacent groups 108 and 109.
  • Panel 110 may be provided with a perforation 114 to enable the strip containing group 106 to be torn away when the tablets in that group are used up.
  • Sheet member 70 could be used with such a dispenser merely by moving it from one row of blisters to the next as necessary.

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MYPI90000554A MY105576A (en) 1989-04-17 1990-04-05 Reminder system for taking medication.
ZA902773A ZA902773B (en) 1989-04-17 1990-04-11 Reminder system for taking medication
EP90304004A EP0393942A1 (en) 1989-04-17 1990-04-12 Reminder system for taking medication
FI901869A FI901869A0 (fi) 1989-04-17 1990-04-12 Laekemedelsintag paominnande system.
CA002014498A CA2014498A1 (en) 1989-04-17 1990-04-12 Reminder system for taking medication
BR909001762A BR9001762A (pt) 1989-04-17 1990-04-16 Sistema de lembrete
KR1019900005496A KR900015706A (ko) 1989-04-17 1990-04-17 약물 복용용 기억시스템
JP2099459A JPH0349763A (ja) 1989-04-17 1990-04-17 薬物摂取のための表示装置
PT8327U PT8327T (pt) 1989-04-17 1991-08-09 Sistema para lembrar a tomada de medicamentos

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